#Life Philosophies

[codesquire]

[poempoetryandmore]

[ginnymoonbeam]

Instead of apologizing for liking "trashy" media, consider: what is it doing well? If you like it, if it's making you feel pleasure and interest, then it must be succeeding at something. Is it shaping a set of emotional beats that you find satisfying to watch play out? Did it craft a character you find really compelling? Is something in the styling and aesthetics speaking to you? Did it unexpectedly resonate with a mood or experience you needed to see reflected right then?

However shallow or flawed a piece of media is, if you like it, it's because of something it did well - at least well enough to affect you, on the day that you encountered it.

There are a lot of good reasons to acknowledge this. One is about gratitude and manners: someone worked hard on that thing, and if they provided something that gave you happiness and pleasure, it's nice to honor that. Another is about breaking down the insidious habit of sorting everything into simple good/bad boxes. A piece of media, like a person, can do a lot of things wrong and a lot of things right, and the things on one side do not magically erase the other.

But the most important reason, I believe, is to get in the habit of celebrating what brings you pleasure and happiness. All your life there have been and there will be people telling you that you find joy in the wrong things, that if a particular thing makes you feel good it shows that there's something wrong with you. I reject that utterly. If a particular thing makes you feel good then there's something right, about you and about that thing. I'm not saying that pleasure is the only important thing or that every pleasure should be indulged indiscriminately. All I'm saying is that pleasure is in and of itself a good thing, and deserves notice.

[lucidloving]

D. Alan Holmes, Enlightenment // Signet Amenti // @cryptonature // Alan Wilsom Watts // Evan M. Cohen, "Oceans" // Nikita Gill // @pauladoodles // Julian Gough, "Minecraft End Poem" // Sleeping At Last—Saturn

[y2kaee]

"I was looked at,

but I wasn't seen."

Albert Camus, The misunderstanding.

[enesl]

it hurts to bleed but it hurts more to know who's made the cut

[philosophybits]

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Cicero, Ad Familiares

[izze-art]

med school may be difficult but at least katara has a philosophy ta to rant about the healthcare system to (bonus part is that he’s madly in love with her)

[en--tropy]

[without-ado]

from Earth

[thepaintedchateau]

...our everyday lives are perilous without magic...

[poempoetryandmore]

[prokopetz]

Me: Yeah, I minored in philosophy in college, but it didn't, like, affect me or anything.

Also me: *busts out the fucking deus deceptor thought experiment in response to a shitpost about hypothetical walruses*

You know, upon reflection

[y2kaee]

[maniccherrygirl]

When Franz Kafka said that he is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived, i felt that on a deep emotional level.

[philosophybits]

People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; then there will be no failure.

Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 64)